Enlarge / NASA administrator Bill Nelson will probably be pretty happy with NASA’s final budget, even if it’s late. (credit: NASA)
Let’s face it, the US budgeting process is largely broken. The current budget year, fiscal year 2022, began back on October 1. This year is now nearly half gone, and the US Congress has yet to pass a budget for it.
To handle this situation federal agencies, including NASA, have kept their doors open with a series of “continuing resolutions” that more or less keep funding at the level of previous years. These provide stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown.
The problem with this is, if you need to reduce funding for programs that are ending or increase funding for something like a Moon landing during the middle of this decade, you’re out of luck. Due to partisan differences, this is how the budget process has worked for several years in the United States.
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